4. Anne Hathaway
OK, maybe she's a bit annoying. But '
most hated woman in Hollywood', as some have dubbed her? It seems a little unfair, when all she did was talk a bit too long at an awards ceremony already stuffed full of garrulous windbags, and seems even more unreasonable when you take Hathaway's actual movie work into account. There's been the backlash against Les Miserables (because popularity instantly equals hipster rebellion), but Hathaway didn't get that Best Supporting Actress Oscar for 'Most Irritating Person'. She got that little gold guy for shaving her head, covering herself from head to toe in hooker-slap and singing grown men to tears. She's still the most vivid, emotionally charged thing about Tom Hooper's musical, no matter how small her screen time. There have been great performances elsewhere. Hathaway's previous Oscar nom was for Rachel Getting Married, where she gave a frank, revelatory performance as an unloveable ex-junkie, daringly free of any Hollywoodised sympathy, while her first brush with greatness came as a bitter wife to Jake Gyllenhaal in Brokeback Mountain. Plus, Hathaway may now also be the definitive Catwoman, having slinked her way through The Dark Knight Rises with rare sex appeal and not a trace of the irritation so many bloggers now call her out for.
Her rapping is ridiculous though.